Author: Paula
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What This Blog is About and How That’s Changed
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It’s interesting how things evolve. My initial goal in starting to blog was to find an outlet and a community to discuss my involvement with retreats. I very much want to push that part of my life further along. While I didn’t make any official resolutions for 2009, I did…
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Super Bowel Happy Hour!
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Today we received an email at work announcing this afternoon’s Super “Bowel” Happy Hour. I’m sure hoping the theme is just the result of an unfortunate typo…. ******************************************Edited in an effort to be helpful to those reaching this page looking for honest info about the Football game … since today…
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A Post of Frenzied Gratitude
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Sometimes work dominates our world and needs an overwhelming amount of attention. Today was one of those kinds of days, with what seemed to be back to back meetings. And a chiropractor appointment. And then I stayed at work until about 8:45pm, and jumped right back in to some work…
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A Scrapbook in the Making
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Back in October, my friends and I had planned a baby shower for Susan, who was expecting her first baby. Strangely, she ended up having the baby on the very day that we’d planned to have the shower. He was a couple of months early, and is fine and healthy…
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Inspiration and Interior Design
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One of my favorite kinds of blogs (along side my *favorite* kind of blog, that of the inspirational nature) are home decorating blogs. I’m a total fiend for TV shows like “Trading Spaces,” “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” and even “This Old House.” But I’m totally gonna fess up here ……
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A Moment of Recognition
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I got off the BART train this evening hungry, fumbling for my ticket to let me through the turn style, deep in thought. I happened to pause for a second, and glance up, looking back in the window of the train. And there, still seated on the train, head down…
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Celebrating the Moments of Daily Life
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I ran across these banners on Etsy by bird and bear, and I’m delighted by them. While we’re all used to hanging banners for the big days in our life, birthdays, anniversaries, New Years Eve, why don’t we look for those other moments to celebrate? Both the very simple acts…
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And Then, ‘Nothing’ Happened
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The original plan for this weekend was to attend a retreat on Centering Prayer. You may recall my trepidation of coming face to face with the possible Nothing, and my general excitement over the retreat, since it was going to be led by Cynthia Bourgeault. Or, you can see those…
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Your Heart’s Deepest Desire
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A Franciscan friend once relayed a story to me of a time when he was discerning his life’s purpose. He went to his Benedictine mentor, a staunch, serious older gentleman and asked him for help in this discernment. And his mentor said, “Tell me, what is your heart’s deepest desire?…